With color-coded tabbed dividers and customizable, movable tabbed notecards/bookmarks. Previous ed.: 2011. Includes index.
Contents:
1. The writing process -- Critical thinking, reading, writing -- Drafting in stages -- Revising, editing and proofreading -- Writing and analyzing arguments -- Writing in academic disciplines -- 2. Research/sources/documentation -- The research process: a conversation with sources -- How to search for sources -- How to evaluate Sources -- How to avoid plagiarizing -- How to use, integrate, and document sources -- 3. MLA documentation -- Citing sources in your paper, MLA style -- The MLA list of works cited -- Sample paper 4: a student's research paper, MLA style -- 4.APA, CSE, and Chicago documentation -- Citing sources in your paper, APA style -- APA list of references -- Sample paper 5: a student's research paper, APA style -- CSE style of documentation -- Sample paper 6: excerpt from a student's research paper, CSE style -- Chicago Manual of Style: endnotes, footnotes, and bibliography -- Sample paper 7: student's research paper, Chicago style -- 5. Design, media and presentation -- Document design -- Visuals -- Online communication forums -- Oral and multimedia presentations -- Portfolios -- Resumes and letters of application -- Business letters and memos -- 6. Style: the five c's -- The first C: cut -- The second C: check for action -- The third C: connect -- The fourth C: commit -- The fifth C: choose the best words -- Revising for style: a student's drafts -- Style tips -- 7. Common sentence problems -- Trouble spots and terms -- Fixing a sentence fragment -- Subject-verb agreement -- Pronouns Adjectives and adverbs -- Relative clauses and relative pronouns -- 8. Punctuation, mechanics, and spelling -- Commas -- Apostrophes -- Quotation marks -- Semicolons and colons -- Other punctuation marks -- Italics/underlining -- Capitalization -- Abbreviations -- Numbers -- Hyphens -- Online guidelines -- Spelling -- 9. Writing across languages and cultures -- Language diversity and edited American English: challenges for multilingual writers -- Nouns and articles -- Verbs and verb forms -- Sentence structure and word order -- Prepositions and idioms -- Language learners' FAQs -- 10. Glossaries -- Words to watch for: glossary of usage -- Glossary of grammatical terms.
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